Mike's musings

Miscellaneous catchings-up

So, what's today been about? Well:

• we went to see Kirsty and Matt for an early lunch in Cambridge
• I discovered (yesterday, actually) that the Samsung i8910 HD will be out in the UK soon. I covet it, in a wholly unhealthy way.
• I've had 8 comments so far on my blog post from Friday: A problematic ontology of ministry: employment - and gender. Two of these are from bishops who have kindly taken the time to comment: I value their thoughts particularly, as part of the issue I'm addressing is about the episcopy
• I've been playing with Gnome-Shell, and offering some opinions. I don't pretend to any expertise in UI design, but I'm definitely a power user, in terms of how much I use the desktop and what I tend to do with it. I do like Gnome-Shell, and it's exciting to be working on the future of the Operating System that I know and love.

Labels: blogging, friends, linux, ministry, miscellaneous

Inconsequalia

1. is that a word?
2. I went to a funeral visit yesterday, and had a horrible, horrible moment half-way through when I thought that the dog had died on the sofa
3. who'd have thought that planning a 4th birthday party would bring a couple so close to starting divorce proceedings?
4. "Baaaaaagpoooooossssssss" (Miri)
5. I have a bishop following my twitterings
6. accordingly to Belief-o-matic at beliefnet.com - is a Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestant (100%), which is something of a relief
7. should we encourage adults to come forward for baptisms whenever we have an infant baptism?
8. Twittersheep is cool: looks like the people who follow me are big into church and the Bible
9. pidgin rocks, and I can use it for twitter, facebook, skype, AIM, MSN, Jabber, ...
10. I've got some really good mates, some of whom who I've never met
11. the not meeting doesn't matter
12. please pray (if that's your thing) for Sally, Lucy, Steve, Joe, Sue's family, Sylvia's family and all those coming to terms with redundancy or the possibility of losing their job

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A miscellaneous day

Sennen came over for the morning, and he went with Jo to ballet and tap, though he sat most of it out, in the end. Trip to the park with him, Grenville (his Dad, who turned up for lunch - including strawberries!), Jo and Miri. Quite a lazy day, to the extent that you can be lazy with two 3 year olds and a 1 year old. Miri said "bread" and "lady" for the first times today. And I've got started on a presentation on Web 2.0 and SecondLife for the Lambeth Conference. And I've got a SecondLife meeting about it with the ministry team of the Anglican Cathedral there.

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Misc. post

(backposting) Bits and pieces:

• we're starting to look at the legal issues around holding services in SecondLife. Maybe it's because the Anglican church is a little bureaucratic, but there are some really interesting and complicated problems and issues. Personally, I'm quite happy that there are questions to be asked and answered, and not worried about the bureaucratic side: if we can be safe and know we're coming from, we'll be stronger in the future.
• my Wii age was back up to 37, but as I turn 37 next month, I'm less worried about it. Had a nightmare on the bowling tests, as it happens.
• I've been looking at the ERMC summer school programme, which looks interesting. I'm down to take part in a service for only the second occasion in my time on the course. And it's leading a Methodist service. Should be interesting.
• Miri had a nightmare evening last night. Teeth or stomach: we don't know, but she cried almost incessantly for around 3 hours. We ate in front of the TV (in shifts) and then watched Harry Potter DVDs with subtitles on.
• Jo slept all the way through the night without coming in to us, so got 2 stickers on her chart, and 2 for her top. Very pleased (as were we).
• is there something wrong with the freezer in the cat kitchen?

Labels: ERMC, Jo, miriam, miscellaneous, secondlife

Miscellaneous

What have I done today? In no particular order:

• gone up onto the roof (I _hate_ heights) to remove some things that were growing in the down-pipe for the gutter. This should stop rain coming through the roof in the spare room...
• ... where I slept for much of the night, after Jo woke up _screaming_ around 0315: once I'd calmed her down enough to understand, it turned out that she'd lost her milk, but...
• she and Buster slept through to 0745. This is a record
• saw Si and D for coffee/tea. They're wondering when their new one will turn up. Before or after they move house (which was supposed to be on Monday next week, but things are messing around solicitor-wise)
• did lots of work - mainly bits and pieces, but hopefully closed a long-term deal
• listened to the Cardigans
• got ready to go to Helsinki tonight
• investigated a different SIP provider: AQL. Will probably wait until my credit has run down on my current provider. It's saving me lots on international calls, though.
• took old bits and pieces up to the barn
• nearly dropped Miri
• distressed D when she found out about my Sarah-Jane Honeywell thing, particularly as Si agreed...

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